BZE Radio Community Show Podcasts

BZE Radio Community Show Podcasts Andrew Gunner
2017-09-08T12:00:31+00:00

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The BZE Radio Community Show is a one hour podcast focusing on climate solutions across society locally, regionally and around the globe and goes live every Monday at 5pm. The show aims to provide up-to-date news about community climate solutions and events from around Australia, including interviews with scientists, community and business leaders and economists just to name a few.Subscribe to Beyond Zero Emissions Radio Community Show (Copy paste this RSS feed link into your RSS Feed Reader)

How can seaweed help us draw down the millions of tonnes of CO2 we emit daily?

How can seaweed farmers, ruined by the Montara Oil Spill, find justice?

When will the climate changing oil industry forget the Great Australian Bight?

We start with the potential of seaweed, which Dr Tim Flannery brought to a wide audience on Catalyst and ask “What could possibly go wrong?”

Dr Alecia Bellgrove appeared in that film and explains to us why she sounded a note of caution.

Journalist Jane Hammond found that West Timorese seaweed farmers had been encouraged by Ausaid. Yet when their green gold turned to porridge at the same time as the oil spill reached Indonesian waters, it was denial all round. Her film is timely because their class action is still before the Australian Federal Court.

Nathaniel Pelle is campaigning with Greenpeace to prevent oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight. He describes the great kelp forests and the wealth of biodiversity there which would be ruined by an oil spill. Even the sonic exploration is disturbing deep living creatures.

“The majority of the Emissions Reduction Fund is poured into questionable abatement schemes to discourage land clearing, while mass deforestation cancels out any climate gains.”(Mike Seccombe, The Saturday Paper)

BZE Community Radio Show Podcast: Monday 4 Sept 2017

Summary:

State laws are failing to prevent massive land clearing. Regional Forest Agreements are giving loggers a victory. What new mindset will cause us to value forests for their carbon? Listen to Land Clearing Part 1

The Historian
David Gallan recounts the 40 year battle to save the South East Forests of NSW round Bega. His film celebrates the growing awareness of how many species lived there with rare footage of quolls and lyrebirds. Farmers wanted to preserve the water catchment. Locals realised that forests are “worth more standing”. Scientists came to see logging for woodchips as outdated as whaling for oil. Now that we need to draw down carbon, they are thinking big.

The Parliamentarian
Dr Mehreen Faruqi explains how new state laws are reducing our capacity to sequester carbon. The Reputex report shows that ” ending land clearing would compete with renewables for carbon abatement”. Yet the new NSW land clearing laws will see emissions soaring. She says they “make a mockery of any commitment from the NSW government to get to ZERO EMISSIONS by 2050”.

The Campaigner

Jessica Panegyres sees koala populations down by 80% because of deforestation and landclearing. She says “enough!”

She is the National Nature Campaigner with the Wilderness Society. As a Rhodes Scholar and former Greenpeace activist, she has seen the global struggle not to let our tropical forests go up in smoke. She will show us how all the work to sequester carbon in Qld is sabotaged by land clearing on steroids AND she will invite us to join the campaign to see it brought to an end. Watch Queensland land clearing footage.

Tune in today at 5pm for Mark Butler MP, Christine Milne and Dr John Hewson on Australia’s time-wasting ‘climate wars’.
How did we become the first country to repeal a carbon tax?
How did we discourage investment in renewable energy and end up with costly electricity?
Why have citizens lost confidence in parliament’s capacity to unify round climate policy?
The Hon Mark Butler, in a conversation with Vivien Langford, takes an unflinching look at the time wasting climate wars.
As Naomi Klein says ” No is not enough” .We need a plan for a future we can say yes to.
Mark Butler’s book gives us part of a new narrative and he consults widely in the community.
Former parliamentary leaders Christine Milne and John Hewson will round out the picture.

This week we speak to “Farmers for Climate Action”, an alliance of farmers and leaders in agriculture.
Vivien Langford interviews the CEO Verity Morgan-Schmidt about her work advocating for climate conscious farmers to have their voices heard. Verity calls on PM Turnbull to get out of bed with the fossil fuel companies and invest in farmers adapting to changed conditions.

Vivien also speaks with Farmer Charlie Prell, about his experiences pioneering wind energy on farms including the proposed Crookwell 2 project.

Finally Kurt Johnson interviews Anika Molesworth who is 2015 Australian Young Farmer of the Year. She has been researching farming methods in Laos and Cambodia and farming at Broken Hill. She says ” Farmers are feeling the heat, from subsistence rice farms in SE Asia to arid outback grazing properties in Australia.”

Tune in to hear what a young person finds in farming and why Farmers are taking Climate Action

Guests:
Verity Morgan-Schmidt -CEO of Farmers for Climate Action

Charlie Prell – Co-Chair of Farmers for Climate action and Regional director of the Australian Wind Alliance

Summary:
Already in Australia climate disruption is creating prolonged droughts and increased frequency in flooding and bushfires. As farmers derive their livelihood from the land, they are the most vulnerable to these catastrophes, and so have the greatest incentive to prevent their most ruinous effects.

A message from farmers all around Australia to the PM on climate change via Farmers for Climate Action CEO Verity Morgan-Schmidt.

Cities are facing the fact that a certain amount of climate change is locked in. Their creativity and co-operation was on display at The EcoCities World Summit.

Vivien Langford talks to Professor Rob Roggema about what the Dutch have learned from living partly below sea level. Could cities work more with nature, with Sand Machines and Porous Courtyards?

At a session on disaster management strategies Vivien meets Karibaiti Taoaba. She tells us how communications during and after an emergency area terrific challenge for local governments in small island states. Also foreign aid can be unhelpful “They built a clinic right where our main road used to be”. Alliances were formed at this summit to share expertise and minimise the impact of climate change. The key is to listen to the locals.

It was not all about emergencies. David Holmgren talks about the profound shift needed in our relationship with nature. Instead of building more housing let’s subdivide existing huge houses, share resources and downsize our lives to fit in with the lower carbon footprint we must achieve for an equitable future. “There’s way more land in the suburbs than people with skills to farm it”

Today, in our second creature feature we talk to those in the front line working with animals, trying to mitigate the ruinous effects of climate change. We will learn which organisations are feverishly operating to keep these iconic Australian critters from oblivion.